Primary maths tuition · Years 3 to 6 · Online
Teaching for mastery. Confident learners.
Small online maths groups and one-to-one lessons, taught by an assistant headteacher who helps schools across London teach maths well.
£25 an hour · Taking bookings for September · Something off for brothers and sisters
Ways to learn
Three ways we can work together.
Most children come to a weekly maths group. Some need me to themselves for a while, and a few come for English instead. You can start with one and move to another whenever it suits.
Maths in a small group
A weekly hour with three other children in the same year, working through exactly what they're covering at school — only slower, and with time to ask.
- Never more than four children
- One year group per evening
- Homework set and marked each week
- A note home every half term
Maths at your own pace
For a child who has fallen behind and needs the gaps found properly, or one who is racing ahead and needs something harder to chew on.
- An hour a week, at a time that suits you
- We start by finding out what's actually missing
- Good for the times tables check and SATs
- Any primary year, not only Years 3 to 6
English at your own pace
Reading, comprehension and writing, taught the same careful way. English is one to one only — my groups are maths.
- Reading comprehension and inference
- Writing that holds together and sounds like them
- Spelling, punctuation and grammar
- An hour a week, same as maths
This term
Four evenings, one year group each.
Groups run every week during term time, from half past six until half past seven. Keeping each evening to a single year means the whole hour is spent on work your child is actually doing at school.
If the night you want is full, tell me anyway — I keep a short waiting list and places do come up.
This term's groups
Booking for SeptemberHow I teach
Maths mastery, used where it helps.
I use maths mastery approaches in my lessons, online as much as in school, wherever they suit the child and the topic. One of them is the concrete–pictorial–abstract sequence: moving an idea from something a child can handle, to something they can draw, to the numbers on their own.
Not every lesson runs through all three, and teaching over a screen takes some adapting — I'll tell you what's worth having on the table. But it's the thinking behind how I plan.
Concrete
Something they can move
Online doesn't have to mean watching. Where it helps, I'll ask a child to have a few things to hand — counters, coins, a handful of dried pasta — and we fill a ten frame together, theirs on the table and mine on the screen.
Pictorial
Something they can draw
The bar model — the picture your child may well have brought home from school. We draw it together on a shared whiteboard they can write on too. For a lot of children, being able to draw a problem is what makes it solvable.
Abstract
The numbers on their own
What I'm aiming for is that by the time we reach this point, the method isn't just something they've memorised — they can tell you what it means. That's the difference I work towards.
Where this comes from
This isn't a method I invented. It's how maths is taught in Singapore and Shanghai, two of the strongest places in the world for it, and it's what the national Maths Hubs programme has spent years bringing into English schools.
I lead that work for the London North East Maths Hub, across six London boroughs, and I've been part of the England–China Shanghai Exchange — going out to see those lessons taught, and bringing what works back to teachers here.
It's the same thinking I bring to these evening lessons.
What's included
All of this comes with the hour.
Nothing here is an extra and nothing costs more. It is simply what I would want if it were my own child.
Homework every week
Set by me, marked by me, and always short enough to actually get done.
Help with revision
Proper preparation for the Year 4 times tables check and the Year 6 SATs, spread out calmly rather than crammed.
A note home each half term
A short, honest write-up of how your child is getting on and what we're working on next.
Something off for siblings
If you send me more than one child, the second one costs less. Just ask.
A free lesson for a referral
Recommend me to a friend and, when they join, your next lesson is on me.
A special rate in the holidays
Catch-up and booster sessions over the holidays cost less than term-time lessons.
About Samira
I've spent twenty-two years teaching children this age, and I still think the best lesson is a quiet one where a child works something out for themselves.
I'm an assistant headteacher at Elmhurst Primary School in Newham, and I lead maths for the London North East Maths Hub. That means part of my week is spent teaching children, and part of it is spent helping teachers across six London boroughs teach maths better — running training, sharing research, and working with schools on the mastery approach.
I've also taken part in the England–China Shanghai Exchange, watching how maths is taught in some of the strongest classrooms in the world and bringing that thinking back to schools here. Everything I've learned doing it goes straight into these evening lessons.
Clement Learning is deliberately small: four children at a time, one year group a night, so I know exactly where every child is up to. I'm not running an agency and I don't pass anyone on to another tutor. If you book a place, you get me.
Fees
One price, no extras.
No joining fee, no term to commit to, and nothing added on afterwards. If you need to stop, just tell me the week before.
Brothers and sisters cost less — ask me when you get in touch. Recommend a friend and your next lesson is free once they join.
How it works
Getting started takes one message.
Tell me about your child
Send me a message with their year group and what's worrying you. A couple of lines is plenty — I'll ask the rest.
We have a quick chat
A short call, no charge, so I can understand where they're up to and you can decide whether I'm the right fit.
They start that week
If there's a place on the right evening, your child joins the next lesson. I'll send the link and everything they need.
Questions parents ask
The things people ring me about.
Are the lessons online or at your house?
Online, live, over video — your child joins from home with a laptop or tablet. It means no travelling on a school night, and they can stay in their pyjamas if they like. I'll send you the link once you've booked, along with a short list of bits and pieces that are handy to have nearby — nothing you'd need to buy.
Which year groups do you teach?
The weekly maths groups are Years 3, 4, 5 and 6 — one year group per evening. One-to-one lessons are open to any primary age, so do ask even if your child is younger.
How many children are in a group?
Four, and never more. It's small enough that every child speaks in every lesson and I can see exactly who has understood something and who is nodding along.
Do you teach English as well?
Yes, but one to one only. My groups are maths. For English I cover reading and comprehension, writing, and spelling, punctuation and grammar.
What if we miss a week?
Let me know as early as you can and I'll send the work home so your child doesn't lose the thread. Life happens — I'd rather you told me than worried about it.
Will you get my child ready for the SATs?
Yes. The Thursday Year 6 group works towards the SATs all year, steadily, so there's no panic in the spring. The Tuesday Year 4 group does the same for the times tables check. I don't believe in frightening children into working.
Is there homework?
A little, every week, set by me and marked by me. It's short on purpose — enough to make last week's lesson stick, not enough to ruin a Saturday.
How and when do I pay?
Half a term at a time, by bank transfer, and I'll send you a reminder before each one. There's no joining fee and nothing to sign.
Get in touch
Tell me about your child.
A couple of lines is all I need to start with. I answer every message myself, usually the same evening.